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Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, deploys a scientific research package on the surface of the moon near the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) in this July 20, 1969 NASA handout photo. The photograph is one of more than 12,000 from NASA's archives recently aggregated on the Project Apollo Archive Flickr account.  REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters  ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY - TM3EC7Q1CAJ01

iPhones have over 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon. Image: REUTERS/NASA/Handout via Reuters

Graham Kendall
Professor of Computer Science and Provost/CEO/PVC, University of Nottingham
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